The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) will hold auditions for two staged readings of Eve Ensler's play, Necessary Targets. Auditions are open to students, facutly, staff and members of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls community. No experience is necessary. Scripts will be provided at auditions. Roles available include seven adult women and one narrator.

Necessary Targets is set in the aftermath of the Bosnian War. In the play, two American women, a therapist and a writer. visit Bosnia to help women survivors cope with the trauma of sexual violence and genocide. The play raises questions about the ethics of telling and documenting stories about such trauma.

The College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences presents 220east After-Work, a partnership between CHAS, Cedar Valley Chamber Music, JSA Development and Main Street Waterloo. Look forward to your Wednesday evenings by joining Cedar Valley Chamber Music for our 2014 concert series at 220east. UNI faculty and students, WCF Symphony guest soloists and special guests highlight eleven week of concerts at a unique venue. Doors open at 5 p.m.; concerts are 5:15-6 p.m. Admission is free; good will donations accepted. Complimentary wine at all concerts is provided in partnership with CU restaurant.

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) will hold auditions for two staged readings of Eve Ensler's play, Necessary Targets. Auditions are open to students, facutly, staff and members of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls community. No experience is necessary. Scripts will be provided at auditions. Roles available include seven adult women and one narrator.

Necessary Targets is set in the aftermath of the Bosnian War. In the play, two American women, a therapist and a writer. visit Bosnia to help women survivors cope with the trauma of sexual violence and genocide. The play raises questions about the ethics of telling and documenting stories about such trauma.

Figurative ceramic sculptor Kelly Garrett Rathbone will be a Visiting Artist in the Department of Art. She will demonstrate how she cretes her artwork Tuesday, Feb. 18, from 9:30 a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m.; Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 9:30 a.m.-noon and 1:30-3:30 p.m. Garrett Rahtbone will give a lecture about her work on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. in room 111, Kamerick Art Building.

The Vagina Monologues is an award-winning play based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace, the piece celebrates women’s sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than a decade, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public and brought a deeper consciousness to the conversation around ending violence against women and girls. Admission is $5 and open to the public.

Proceeds from this event will be donated to Cedar Valley Friends of the Family, which is a non-profit organization. The mission of Cedar Valley Friends of the Family is to provide safe shelter, confidential services and housing assistance to individuals in crisis due to homelessness, domestic violence and sexual assault. Through prevention education and community engagement we seek a future free of violence and homelessness.

The Vagina Monologues is an award-winning play based on V-Day Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's interviews with more than 200 women. With humor and grace, the piece celebrates women’s sexuality and strength. Through this play and the liberation of this one word, countless women throughout the world have taken control of their bodies and their lives. For more than a decade, The Vagina Monologues has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public and brought a deeper consciousness to the conversation around ending violence against women and girls. Admission is $5 and open to the public.

Proceeds from this event will be donated to Cedar Valley Friends of the Family, which is a non-profit organization. The mission of Cedar Valley Friends of the Family is to provide safe shelter, confidential services and housing assistance to individuals in crisis due to homelessness, domestic violence and sexual assault. Through prevention education and community engagement we seek a future free of violence and homelessness.

BUCK A KID - In an age where television and video games reign supreme, "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Tortoise and the Hare" vividly come to life on stage like never before through electroluminescent puppetry!

Until The Violence Stops features playwright and activist Eve Ensler in a film that documents how The Vagina Monologues grew into the international grassroots movement stopping violence against women and girls known as V-Day. In 2002, 800 cities around the world participated in V-Day by staging benefit performances ofThe Vagina Monologues. Until the Violence Stops shows women from Harlem, New York to Ukiah, California; from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Philippines and Kenya, uniting and courageously revealing their intimate and deeply painful experiences with abuse ranging from rape to female circumcision. This film screening is part of a week of UNI V-Day 2014 events Feb. 10-16.